by danielp
Hi,
I am from Wales in the UK, but am interested in Amtrak for model railroading. One day I hope to come to the USA to sample the NE corridor and trans-USA superliners in real life (hopefully before the Amfleet 1s are replaced!)- but for now, I have to make do with HO scale!
I am building up a nice fleet of Walthers Budd 85' coaches. I'm interested in finding out what consists some of these were used in, particularly in their Phase IV livery days, as info and photos seems quite hard to come by (particularly the coach cars). I'm also quite drawn into the fact that there are so many variations to the 85' coaches, and that using them prototypically is quite a challenge.
I have Walthers 932-6384- described as a 52 seat coach car in phase iv. I can't find how it was used in real life at all! At the moment, I am using it in lieu of a phase iv heritage diner (which I don't yet have!).
I've also seen a Walthers 46 seat coach car phase iv (932-6304) as well and can't find how they were used.
The other mystery is the set of baggage dorm cars I have (like 932-6464). I tend to use them in lieu of full baggage cars (which I don't yet have either).
I managed to find a photo of one in real life, but it is from phase iii days. I can't find anything from the phase iv period.
I am fairly sure I can use my phase iv 10-4 sleeper prototypically, as they seemed to pop up on the NE corridor even in Viewliner days, or could maybe run solo on the back of a rake of Amfleets. I also have an ex-10-4 sleeper converted into a Dorm/lounge. From what I can see these were used quite widely as crew coaches behind viewliners (with a heritage diner on the other side of the viewliners).
I have spent ages searching through resources on the web for my questions, but haven't quite made it to an answer. I have had a lot of fun on the way though, and learnt alot!
If anyone can advise, or suggest resources, that would be great.
Here is some of my fleet in action BTW. I have just managed to get 2x Walthers Viewliners (it cost me, but they are really hard to find!), so the quality of my consists will improve shortly!
https://youtu.be/tKTkQaNXIWA
https://youtu.be/fMRQ3sK-n04
Daniel
I am from Wales in the UK, but am interested in Amtrak for model railroading. One day I hope to come to the USA to sample the NE corridor and trans-USA superliners in real life (hopefully before the Amfleet 1s are replaced!)- but for now, I have to make do with HO scale!
I am building up a nice fleet of Walthers Budd 85' coaches. I'm interested in finding out what consists some of these were used in, particularly in their Phase IV livery days, as info and photos seems quite hard to come by (particularly the coach cars). I'm also quite drawn into the fact that there are so many variations to the 85' coaches, and that using them prototypically is quite a challenge.
I have Walthers 932-6384- described as a 52 seat coach car in phase iv. I can't find how it was used in real life at all! At the moment, I am using it in lieu of a phase iv heritage diner (which I don't yet have!).
I've also seen a Walthers 46 seat coach car phase iv (932-6304) as well and can't find how they were used.
The other mystery is the set of baggage dorm cars I have (like 932-6464). I tend to use them in lieu of full baggage cars (which I don't yet have either).
I managed to find a photo of one in real life, but it is from phase iii days. I can't find anything from the phase iv period.
I am fairly sure I can use my phase iv 10-4 sleeper prototypically, as they seemed to pop up on the NE corridor even in Viewliner days, or could maybe run solo on the back of a rake of Amfleets. I also have an ex-10-4 sleeper converted into a Dorm/lounge. From what I can see these were used quite widely as crew coaches behind viewliners (with a heritage diner on the other side of the viewliners).
I have spent ages searching through resources on the web for my questions, but haven't quite made it to an answer. I have had a lot of fun on the way though, and learnt alot!
If anyone can advise, or suggest resources, that would be great.
Here is some of my fleet in action BTW. I have just managed to get 2x Walthers Viewliners (it cost me, but they are really hard to find!), so the quality of my consists will improve shortly!
https://youtu.be/tKTkQaNXIWA
https://youtu.be/fMRQ3sK-n04
Daniel